(23041) Hunt Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Patricia Hunt mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio.Naming citation (20070303/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hunt is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hunt is 3.06 au from the Sun and 3.90 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23041 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XL22 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.08 km (#12,552 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.154 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.52 |
| Orbital period | 5.08 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.96 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.69 – 3.22 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0903 |
| Inclination | 3.97° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.70 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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